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Cypherpunk retweeted
Zcash is a technology that preserves and expands human rights. It protects your financial privacy in the age of AI — the antidote to AI-fueled surveillance and tyranny.
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
JUST IN: Applications are open for ZODL Summit 2027 by @zodl_co, happening January 19–21 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Apply here: xitter.cf/zodl_co/status/2112562…
Cypherpunk retweeted
This is the most relevant interview you will see this year.
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Cypherpunk retweeted
Maxime Desalle argues that Zcash is truly unstoppable and impossible to ban unlike Bitcoin
“You can't ban the culture. 10 years of proof of work. 10 years where the Zcash issuance went to the most diehard, hardcore believers in encryption and privacy”
“There's no way to replicate that and there's no way to ban that. This is really why unlike Bitcoin, Zcash is truly unstoppable money”
“The state will try eventually probably to go after Zcash and it will fail because unlike Bitcoin, Zcash is unbannable”
Cypherpunk retweeted
Applications are now open for ZODL Summit 2027.
January 19–21 • Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
We're bringing together a small group to help shape the future of Zcash with one mission: shielded ZEC in the hands of billions.
Apply to attend ↓
Cypherpunk retweeted
Privacy prevents you from conflating an idea with the person.
You have no choice but to judge an idea by its content alone, regardless of who's offering it.
~@tyler with @cameron & Conjecture Institute Fellow @maxdesalle
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Cypherpunk retweeted
“Encryption is the peaceful, nonviolent version of the Second Amendment.” — @tyler
Cypherpunk retweeted
We're BACK
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Cypherpunk retweeted
A discussion on Zcash, privacy, and the separation of money and state.
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
Cypherpunk retweeted
Massive thank you to @arjunkhemani for helping make this episode possible!
Watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/fezWpms2z3I
Cypherpunk retweeted
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
JUST IN: @ZakuraZcash ships P2Pv2, a next-generation networking stack built to scale Zcash toward Visa-level throughput.
Scaling Zcash to Visa-level throughput requires a next-generation networking stack. We're excited to share P2Pv2, which you can try out today in Zakura!
zakura.com/engineering/p2pv2…
Cypherpunk retweeted
privacy is a human right
Tyler Winklevoss explains why he believes privacy is a fundamental human right
“I see privacy as the boundary where government stops and your freedom and self-sovereignty begins. So it's this really important boundary”
“We have this enshrined with the Fourth Amendment, to some extent the Second Amendment and encryption is a peaceful, nonviolent Second Amendment that protects you and your space and your privacy”
“Government tends to go just one way like more surveillance, more trampling on your rights, more coercion, more violence”
“This is a mathematical way to stop that and to stifle that and really uphold the American values and ethos in our Constitution”
“Privacy is a human right”